Devon Cricket Board - A Division 2nd XI

A Division 2nd XI - Tidball has six appeal

RICHARD Tidball rolled back the years to put the skids under Budleigh Salterton as Hatherleigh stormed to a 33-run win.

Jack Ashmore hit 50 and Ian Cockwill 25 in a stand of 86 for the fifth wicket in Hatherleigh’s total of 187 all out. Tidball weighed in with 28.

Budleigh’s Matt Murphy – son of 1^st XI captain Joel – took four for 29 and skipper James Leat three for 50.

Tidball –50-plus and still wheeling away – then took six for 32 as Budleigh dipped to 154 all out.

Joe Marley made 50 and Phil Yolland 26, but the last five wickets tumbled for just nine runs as the slump gathered pace.

Brauton opened up a 23-point safety margin over Budleigh at the bottom of the table thanks to a five-wicket win at Bradninch.

Luca Fencl (64) and Rob Acton (47) put on 90 for the fifth wicket in Bradninch’s 175 for seven.

Jason Lathwell took three for 17 and Taylor Latham two for 54.

A stand of 71 between Sam Lathwell (75) and Callum Mitchell (29) pointed Braunton in the right direction. Mark Lathwell’s 47 not out wrapped things up.

Chudleigh beat Hatherleigh by 89 runs to stay ahead of their opponents in the quest for second place behind champs presumptive Sandford.

Paul Horn flogged 44 and Paul Sercombe 35 – they put on 79 – in Chudleigh’s 169 for nine.

Heathcoat collapsed from 22 for none to 57 for nine and were all out for 80 with Matty Ball (5-35) and Graeme Wilson (4-24) doing the damage.

Barton thought they had done the hard bit by bowling Plymouth out for 127 – Pete Gartrell (5-29) in the thick of it – which proves just how wrong you can be!

For Martin Gill (4-10), Jamie Bell (2-20), Dan Godfrey (2-20) and Phil Barrow (2-42) skittled Barton for 100 in reply.

Barton had been 48 for three in reply – Martin Powell (26) but lost three wickets on 81 and never recovered.

Struggling Stoke Gabriel were on the end of some devastating hitting in their 236-run defeat by leaders Sandford.

Scott Tremayne made 131, Sean Hawkins 63 and Tom Sparrow 44 in Sandford’s 344 for five. Ben Clement lashed 32 off 11 balls (six fours, a six and a two) just to rub it in.

Stoke bowlers Matt Taylor (3-108) and Kai Horsburgh (0-112) both joined the ton-up club.

Jeff Baker’s 34 not out was the only score of note as Shaun Fryett (6-230 and Brian Leech (2-21) reduced Stoke from 75 for three to 81 for eight and on to 108 all out.

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